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Marketer Behind Fake Quotes in ‘Megalopolis’ Trailer Dropped by Lionsgate


Lionsgate is parting ways with the marketing rep behind the 'Megalopolis' trailer that used fake quotes.

Eddie Egan, a very real marketing consultant, lost his gig with Lionsgate this week after the studio discovered that quotes he used in a trailer for Francis Ford Coppola ‘s Megalopolis were fabricated, according to Variety. Variety reports that a prompt to ChatGPT for negative press around Coppola returned similar statements but that in reality Kael loved The Godfather. “Say what you will about this grand gesture at filtering Edward Gibbon’s history lessons through a lens darkly, it is exactly the movie that Coppola set out to make — uncompromising, uniquely intellectual, unabashedly romantic (upper-case and lower-case R), broadly satirical yet remarkably sincere about wanting not just brave new worlds but better ones,” Fear wrote.

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